Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 174, issue C, 2025

Temporary migration for long-term investment

Laurent Bossavie, Joseph-Simon Görlach, Çaglar Özden and He Wang

Demand for “Safe Space”: Avoiding harassment and complying with norms

Florence Kondylis, Arianna Legovini, Kate Vyborny, Astrid Zwager and Luiza Andrade

Road infrastructure and skill premium: Evidence from Indian manufacturing

Santanu Chatterjee, Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher and Abhinav Narayanan

Relaxing multiple agricultural productivity constraints at scale

Joshua W. Deutschmann, Maya Duru, Kim Siegal and Emilia Tjernström

The elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled labor in developing countries: A directed technical change perspective

Alberto Behar

Economic shocks, gender, and populism: Evidence from Brazil

Laura Barros and Manuel Santos Silva

Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?

Giulia Bettin, Amadou Jallow and Alberto Zazzaro

Going the distance: Hybrid vocational training for women in Nepal

Sarah Janzen, Nicholas Magnan, Conner Mullally, Shruti Sharma and Bhola Shrestha

Farm profits, prices and household behavior

Daniel LaFave, Evan Peet and Duncan Thomas

Learning to use trade agreements

Kala Krishna, Carlos Salamanca, Yuta Suzuki and Christian Volpe Martincus

Local knowledge, formal evidence, and policy decisions

Eva Vivalt, Aidan Coville and Sampada Kc

Identity conflict, ethnocentrism and social cohesion

Matteo Sestito

Too fast, too furious? Digital credit delivery speed and repayment rates

Alfredo Burlando, Michael A. Kuhn and Silvia Prina

Measuring racial bias in employment services in Colombia

Suzanne Duryea, Jaime Millán-Quijano, Judith Morrison and Yanira Oviedo

A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development

Nobuhiro Mizuno and Ryosuke Okazawa

The power of children in energy conservation: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Yuan Wang, Huayu Xu, Xiaoguang Xu and Yongmei Zhou

Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Anastasia Litina, Cem Özgüzel and Chan Yu

FDI in Côte d’Ivoire: Are local firms better off?

Osaretin Olurotimi, Jeremy Foltz and Nouhoum Traore

Dynamic responses to smoking bans: Evidence from young adults in a developing country

Camila Steffens and Paula Carvalho Pereda

How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?

Gianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport and Gianluca Santoni

Loose knots: Strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda

Dean Karlan and Leigh L. Linden

The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia

Tekalign Gutu Sakketa, Dan Maggio and John McPeak

Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico

Mizuhiro Suzuki

Beyond the records: Data quality and COVID-19 vaccination progress in low- and middle-income countries

Yannick Markhof, Philip Wollburg and Alberto Zezza

When the levee breaks: The impact of floods on educational outcomes in China

Zenghe Huang and Xiaofang Dong

The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils

Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Yu-Hsin Ho, Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee and Jin-Tan Liu

Do employers discriminate against married women? Evidence from a field experiment in Egypt

Caroline Krafft

The uneven reach of the state: A novel approach to mapping local state presence

Gustav Agneman, Christoffer Cappelen, Kasper Brandt and David Sjöberg

In search of the holy grail: Post-intervention effects of an unconditional cash transfer program in Zambia

Sudhanshu Handa, Gelson Tembo, Luisa Natali and Averi Chakrabarti

Multiplying multi-plants: A new and consequential phenomenon

Abhishek Anand, Arvind Subramanian and Naveen Thomas

Is crime a “root cause” of Central American emigration? Evidence from El Salvador

Kaleb Abreha, Trinity Johnson and Raymond Robertson

The power of dialogue: Forced displacement and social integration amid an Islamist insurgency in Mozambique

Henrique Pita Barros

Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election

Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

Underemployment of college graduates: is doing anything better than doing nothing?

Michel Armel Ndayikeza

Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings

T. Terry Cheung, Kamhon Kan and Tzu-Ting Yang

Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for poverty prediction and impact evaluation

Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Travis J. Lybbert and Daniel Putman

Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda

Douglas Kazibwe and Jinhu Li

Labor intensity, market structure, and the effect of economic activities on civil conflict

Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter and Yoko Yamasaki

Estimating the direct and indirect effects of improved seed adoption on yields: Evidence from DNA-fingerprinting, crop cuts, and self-reporting in Ethiopia

Nina Jovanovic and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

From fields to factories: Special economic zones, foreign direct investment, and labour markets in Vietnam

Tevin Tafese, Jann Lay and Van Tran

The long shadow of conflict on human capital: Intergenerational evidence from Peru

Alessandra Hidalgo-Aréstegui, Catherine Porter, Alan Sánchez and Saurabh Singhal

Can SMS interventions increase vaccination? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

Kevin Carney, Leah R. Rosenzweig, Wendy N. Wong, Florence Akech, James Otieno and Elisa M. Maffioli

Language training, refugees' healthcare integration, and the next generation's health

Thang Dang

Foreign banks and firms’ export dynamics: Evidence from China’s banking reform

Ana Fernandes and Jing-Lin Duanmu

Volume 172, issue C, 2025

Are students really biased against female professors? — Experimental evidence from India

Puneet Arora and Moumita Roy

Do entrepreneurial skills unlock opportunities for online freelancing? Experimental evidence from El Salvador

Maria Victoria Fazio, Richard Freund and Rafael Novella

Aid allocation with optimal monitoring: Theory and policy

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention

Mylène Lagarde and Carlos Riumallo Herl

Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China

Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Corina Mommaerts and Yu Zheng

Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?

Maria Bas and Caroline Paunov

The abolition of People’s Communes and fertility decline in rural China

Shuo Chen and Bin Xie

The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict

Tobias Korn and Henry Stemmler

Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning

Paul Corral, Heath Henderson and Sandra Segovia

Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration

Yumi Koh, Jing Li, Yifan Wu, Junjian Yi and Hanzhe Zhang

The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China

Chong Liu, Wenyi Lu and Ye Yuan

The transition to direct mayoral elections in clientelistic environments: Causal public spending and service delivery effects

Blane Lewis and Sarah Dong

Robots as guardians: Industrial automation and workplace safety in China

Wei Luo, Lixin Tang, Yaxin Yang and Xianqiang Zou

How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? A review of the evidence using a unified metric

Noam Angrist, David K. Evans, Deon Filmer, Rachel Glennerster, Halsey Rogers and Shwetlena Sabarwal

Electricity and female employment: Evidence from Tajikistan’s winter energy crisis

Adrian Poignant

Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?

Sumit Agarwal, Prasanna Tantri and Nitin Vishen

Combining survey and census data for improved poverty prediction using semi-supervised deep learning

Damien Échevin, Guy Fotso, Yacine Bouroubi, Harold Coulombe and Qing Li

Estimating poverty for India after 2011 using private-sector survey data

Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Roy van der Weide

Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China

Li Shu, Chunhua Wang and Wei Wang

What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa

Collen Lediga, Nadine Riedel and Kristina Strohmaier

The effects of expanding worker rights to children

Leah Lakdawala, Diana Martínez Heredia and Diego Vera-Cossio

Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China

Naijia Guo, Wei Huang and Ruixin Wang

Discretion, talent allocation, and governance performance: Evidence from China’s imperial bureaucracy

Kevin Zhengcheng Liu and Xiaoming Zhang

Ethnic diversity and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from refugee-hosting areas

Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa

Amina Ebrahim and Jukka Pirttilä

Shooting a moving target: Evaluating targeting tools for social programs when income fluctuates

Diether W. Beuermann, Bridget Hoffmann, Marco Stampini, David L. Vargas and Diego Vera-Cossio

Corrigendum to ‘Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor’ [J. Dev. Econ., 155 (2022) 102781]

Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, Hannah Trachtman and Christopher Udry

How does progressivity impact tax morale? Experimental evidence across developing countries

Christopher Hoy

Cover more for less: Targeted drug coverage, chronic disease management, and medical spending

Julie Shi, Wanyu Yang and Ye Yuan

Corrigendum to “Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China” [J. Dev. Econ. 166, (January 2024), 103211]

Anthony Howell

Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity

Lina Meng, Pengfei Liu, Yinggang Zhou and Yingdan Mei

E-invoicing, tax audits and VAT compliance

Christos Kotsogiannis, Luca Salvadori, John Karangwa and Innocente Murasi

A tale of framing and screening: How health messaging and house screening affect malaria transmission in Ethiopia

Solomon Balew, Erwin Bulte, Zewdu Abro, Abebe Asale, Clifford Mutero and Menale Kassie